My first black powder revolver was .44 caliber Navy model. I was shooting targets with friends one beautiful afternoon. And then the thing chain fired. Talk about make you take notice. After that the revolver would not cock right and the cylinder did not line up just perfect. I took that to a gun smith and he said it was stretched. They cut the thing back to make it work and I sold it to a person that wanted a wall hanger. Actually that Navy revolver was an excellent shooting revolver.

This present revolver I shoot is a F.L. Lippeta (made in Italy) 1858 New Army Target model in .44 made I bought through Cabela's. This thing with 25 grains, felt wad, .451 roundball and some Crisco over the end will shoot excellent groups. We even rabbit hunt with them. We don't get a lot of bunnies, but we sure have a lot of fun chasing snowshow rabbits on our snowshoes.